[Column] About the decrease of the number of articles

Being ordered is annoying, but not being ordered sometimes makes you anxious. You must take all the responsibility by yourself.

I look back, should I have written that way or shouldn’t ? sometimes in anxiety, sometimes in fear.
but I feel the most feared when I think if I didn’t do it being too coward at that moment.
If I didn’t leave Japan, if I didn’t quit google adsense etc..
Changing is abandoning old things to let the new things in.
Recent Fukushima Diary articles are heavy and thick. It’s way deeper than old articles. Please be patient with the small supply of posts. In total, the volume of news is bigger than before.

I hate talking about money but roughly speaking, the number of the articles and donation amount are in proportion. so this new way of reporting is killing me because it reduces the number of the posts = donation. but I didn’t want to stay at the same point. Don’t know how it goes, but you can’t go anywhere without taking the risk.

What makes Fukushima Diary unique is the stance that it walks with the readers. It discovers the fact, learns, and cries with the readers altogether because I am one of the victims. That’s why it has its roots on FB, Twitter and other SNS too.

Donation is still a new way of running a website in this world. Fukushima Diary took the risk so it can remove the annoying advertisement or subscribing fee. I hope to learn and improve this new system with the readers that potentially might be an alternative way of exchanging value after the failing capitalism.
As I write by myself, I sometimes want to bang my head against the wall.

So far, at least 2 explosions are suspected to have been hidden. There are still more plant parameters concealed. If they all show additional hidden explosions, I was exposed to more than 6 explosion of the nuclear plant in the distance of 3 hours drive. I should have moved immediately after 311.
(cf, Tepco may be hiding unknown explosion occurred on 3/16/2011 [Link 1])
(cf, [Concealed explosion at reactor2?] D/W pressure jumped up twice on 3/16/2011 [Link 2])
(cf, 3/21/2011-The day G.Washington evacuated Yokosuka, possible explosion happened in reactor3 to melt the concrete of PCV [Link 3])

I’m already exposed to the numbers of explosions. I don’t hope so much. In the meantime before I can’t work, I’ll spend the rest of time of flipping the world. You might think why I’m wandering about. Soon you’ll see why.

About

Fukushima Diary is the news site of a corporation Fukushima Diary SRL and all the articles are written by Iori Mochizuki.
He was in Yokohama, where is about 300km from Fukushima nuclear plant when 311 took place.
This site started when he was forced to collect information to decide to go or not to go.
At this moment, this is the only news site in the world on Fukushima issue written in English, by a Japanese citizen who was there on 3/11/2011.

Several articles are published daily and all the posts are about the current Fukushima plant situation, on-going health problems among Japanese people, media blackout situation and global effect etc.. Most of them are not covered by mass media all around the world.